Decline in Female Associates Called a 'Red Flag'

Headlines • Decline in Female Associates Called a 'Red Flag' • Patent Office Getting a New Deputy Director • Ethics Complaint Dismissed Against Judge Sykes of Seventh Circuit • Massey Settlement Came as Discovery Stay Was Set to End • Hearst Appeals Ruling in Favor of Internet Competitor • Ninth Circuit Revives Suit Over Painting Looted by Nazis • Gay Marriage Advocates Race to Courts; A.G. Calls for Consolidation • Challenges to New Volcker Rule a 'Virtual Certainty' • Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again • Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Decline in Female Associates Called a 'Red Flag' The percentage of women associates at law firms fell for the fourth straight year, even as the percentage of minority associates continued to rise, according to the latest figures from the National Association for Law Placement. Read More » Patent Office Getting a New Deputy Director Michelle Lee, a former key lawyer for Google Inc. who runs the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Silicon Valley satellite office, has been tapped to become the agency's deputy director. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Law Librarian M.S.: St. John's Flexible, affordable, St. John's University's M.S. and Advanced Certificate programs in Library and Information Science combine top faculty with the resources of New York's best law libraries. Students receive well-equipped laptops. Contact Jeffery Olson, Ph.D., J.D., Associate Provost and Director of Library and Information Science: (718) 990-6200; dlis@stjohns.edu. Visit www.stjohns.edu/lawlibrarian Ethics Complaint Dismissed Against Judge Sykes of Seventh Circuit Chief Judge Diane Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has dismissed an ethics complaint filed against Judge Diane Sykes for her appearance with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at the Federalist Society's annual dinner Nov. 14. Read More » Massey Settlement Came as Discovery Stay Was Set to End The $265 million shareholder settlement with coal producer Massey Energy Co. came after the U.S. attorney's office in West Virginia, citing its criminal investigation into the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster, intervened to halt discovery in the civil case. Read More » Hearst Appeals Ruling in Favor of Internet Competitor A Hearst Corp. subsidiary's challenge to a Boston federal judge's refusal to slap an injunction on Aereo Inc. continues a copyright war between broadcasters and the Internet television distributor. Read More » Ninth Circuit Revives Suit Over Painting Looted by Nazis A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit by the descendants of a woman whose painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro was allegedly looted as she fled Nazi Germany. Read More » Gay Marriage Advocates Race to Courts; A.G. Calls for Consolidation When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of the federal Defense of Marriage Act in June, the historic ruling started a quiet race to federal courthouses in Texas by same-sex couples seeking to overturn the state law forbidding them from marrying. Read More » Challenges to New Volcker Rule a 'Virtual Certainty' Given the Volcker Rule's scope and magnitude, lawyers warn that legal challenges are practically inevitable. Regulators released the massive rule—which weighs in at 71 pages, plus another 882 pages of supporting documentation—on Tuesday. Read More » Female Associate Numbers Decline—Again NALP's latest report shows a stubborn decline for women in the legal profession. Read More » Should Firms Look at Economic Diversity in Hiring? Guest blogger Robin Sparkman argues that it's time to take a broader definition of diversity in hiring associates. Read More »

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